HEFEI, China – The recently-completed Hefei Grand Theatre has been equipped with Robert Juliat lighting gear, including a number of 2000W Profiles, PCs, Fresnels and followspots. Hefei, a cultural center in China's Anhui Province, is home to a style of Chinese opera that evolved from artistic forms including folk songs and folk dances.
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HELSINKI, Finland – Over 100 Robe CitySource 96 LED wash fixtures were used to illuminate Helsinki's 2009 Light Season, which lit up the Finnish capitol's Parliament House and the Council of State and University buildings. Mikki Kunttu designed the lighting for both sites, expanding on his design last year for Senate Square.
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NEW YORK – When the new musical Fela! opened recently, it also marked the Broadway debut of the PRG V676 lighting console. Much of the lighting in Fela! takes place beyond the stage, and PRG worked closely with LD Robert Wierzel and Timothy Rogers, the lighting programmer, on the production.
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CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – Large-scale projections designed by Ross Ashton helped bring the year-long celebration for Cambridge University's 800th year to a close. Called Transforming Tomorrow, the light shows were projected onto Cambridge's Senate House and adjacent Old School, and also part of Kings College Chapel and the nearby Gibbs Building.
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BRUSSELS – Besix, a Belgian conglomerate, marked 100 years in business with a show designed by Luc Petit featuring some 70 dancers and acrobats. Tof Leuba, the show's programmer, used Compulite gear to control the Procon Belgium-supplied rig, which included an assortment of Clay Paky and Vari-Lite light fixture along with Robert Juliat followspots.
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DUBAI, U.A.E. – Soaring 2,717 feet in height (828 meters) – more than twice as high as the 1,250-foot-high Empire State Building – the Burj Kahlifa opened with lighting and projection complementing the Jan. 4 fireworks and water effects display for the opening of the $1.5 billion structure.
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BAIE-COMEAU, Quebec – The Glacier Garden, an indoor/outdoor museum, lets visitors travel back in time to the Ice Age and learn about the impact of climate change on animal migration. XYZ Cultural Technology, a Canadian integrator and AV designer company, chose Medialon as the main controller of the indoor part of the museum.
Read More »SULPHUR, LA – Deep South Productions (DSP), whose lighting inventory already included Clay Paky Stage Zoom and Stage Color 1200 fixtures, recently got a chance to put their latest inventory addition, a batch of Alpha Spot 700 HPE fixtures acquired through PRG Distribution, to the test.
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The JBLED A4 from JB Lighting is a compact LED moving head fixture designed for use on smaller stages, clubs, and other smaller venues. The A4 contains 60 Luxeon LEDs and features the same 8 degrees to 28 degrees optical zoom system found in the JBLED A7.
Read More »NEW YORK – BSR E1.6-1–201x, Entertainment Technology – Powered Hoist Systems and BSR E1.6-2–201x, Entertainment Technology – Design, Inspection, and Maintenance of Serially Manufactured Electric Chain Hoists for the Entertainment Industry, are available for public review on ESTA's Web site through Feb. 15, 2010.
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NEW YORK – More than 100 top artists teamed up to support the two-hour Hope for Haiti Now telethon, which raised at least $57 million so far, according to its organizers. That sum reflects direct donations via telephone, text and Internet in response to the telethon itself, and does not include funds raised through iTunes.
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